Due to the forbidding terrain of its mountain habitat, there hardly exists any significant film or photographic record of the natural history of the red panda species in the wild.
Made over 2 years, the first Indian film that unravels the secretive life of this mysterious and little known Red Pandas. This is the first ever documentation never-seen footage of the full life cycle of highly endangered species Indian has. The film showcase for first time ever the glory, courting and mating, nest building, rearing of the newly-born.
Most challenging sequence was Courtship behavior, which happens one for single day in a year. Vijay was lucky to capture is on the film. Their population is low as 1000 only, less than even great cat like tiger and snow leopards.
Before this film was made, many Indian thought pandas were not found in India but only in China. Our film could convince Indian officials that red panda excites in small pockets of Singalila National park and has been fighting its lonely battle for survival in the eastern Himalayas. These helpless red pandas are killed for there fur. A lank mark move, with full support of Bengal Chief Minister, now species is well protected under the Indian law.

Major Awards
• Won 9 international awards, winner for “Best Conservation and Environment Film” Montana film festival, USA, 2006.
• Green Oscar, 2006.
• Best Conservation Mountain Film at Banff World Largest Mountain film festival in Canada.

Naresh Bedi: A Profile

Naresh Bedi, along with his brother Rajesh, has worked as filmmaker and photographer for over 38 years. They have traveled to the remotest corners of India to produce pictorial books and films on the cultural and natural heritage of the country. He nurtured his firm Bedi Films to become one of the leading producers of world class documentaries. Naresh Bedi has received international acclaim for his films on the gharial, elephant and tigers, which have been shown at prime time by major TV networks of the world.
Their work has been awarded nationally and internationally many times. Naresh won the Panda or the ‘Green Oscar’ for Best Wildlife Cameraman at the International Wildlife Film and Television Festival, “Wildscreen 1984”. He won the Silver Medal in the 28th Annual International Film and TV Festival of New York in 1985 for their film The Ganges Gharial. Their two Tiger films were nominated for the British Academy Awards 1987. Rajesh was adjudged the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 1986 in a worldwide competition in England. Rajesh was the cinematographer of a hour long film on ‘Child Prostitutes’; for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was awarded the world’s highest television award the ‘Emmy’.

Naresh and Rajesh inherited their love for nature from their father Dr. Ramesh Bedi, a noted scholar of Indian medicinal plants. The Bedi Brothers grew up in the lap of nature among the Himalayan foothills of north India, keeping foxes and pythons as pets and observing leopards and elephants in their backyard. The brothers naturally took to filmmaking and photography, so that they could bring the splendor of India’s wildernesses into people’s homes. Naresh Bedi studied filmmaking at Asia’s foremost Film and Television Institute of India at Pune. Their wildlife photos and footage while spreading a strong conservation message have also made significant contributions to the subcontinent’s natural history. Naresh Bedi and Rajesh in fact have risked their very lives several times to achieve these goals.